Re: Resend [PATCH] Make KOBJ_NAME_LEN match BUS_ID_SIZE
Ben Collins (bcollins@debian.org)
Sun, 25 May 2003 12:40:57 -0400
On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 10:10:56AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On 25 May 2003, Adam Sampson wrote:
> >
> > If you're going to do this, it might make sense to call it "strlcpy"
> > for consistency with the OpenBSD-introduced function of the same name
> > that's getting included in a lot of userspace these days...
>
> Sure, done. I'll check it in asap (and I'll make the devfs parts that Ben
> was unhappy about use it too).
>
> Somebody (else ;) should probably go through our current uses of strncpy()
> and see if they make sense. Some of them probably do, but I suspect
> anything name/path related does not.
Please hold off. I have a better patch that includes strlcat. Actually
tested.
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